The Portland daily press., 1887-10-28


extent, Take England, Ireland. Scotland, Ger
many, Wales Greece and Italy, multiply them
three times over and then you can plant them mem
would need guides then to ind their way to the
sea. (Applause.)
American civilization is ultimately TO be the ciyi
Eation of the EARTH but If those things are 10 come
true, as they all may, one thing Is absolutely es-
and virtue and religion shall keep pace with our
growth IN power and population. (Applanse.)
Il now TINS magnificent republic has got down 70
darkness without power, without influence, with
out civilization. what fearful responsibility that
lays upon the Christian men and Christian women
of America; look at that which you may attain
and remember il rests with you whether or not it
shall be attained; remembering that, trusted
that four hundred thousand members OF Congrega-
tional churches hereafter will never be content
with their miserable mite of fifty cents apiece for
the American association, lApplausel DO not
strong talks abomt INT there are Some things that
are fearfully menacing, and l am going TO talk
about one and one only and that Is ignorance, and
other matters, as Of superstition crime. vice and
pauperism Now remember that we are re-
ceiying from abroad wonderful accessions and let
me for moment be prophet aud declare TO you
that for the next ten or fifteen years you are going
to receive from abroadlhve men where you have
received one; that instead Of ive hundred thoass
for two or three millions year. Why? Emper-
or William is ninety years of age and tottering
on the edge of the grave and Won Motks is stand
broken down with rheumatsm and govt. It is
not impossible that within year these three great
| powers 10 Germany may have gone. Looking at
the German Reichstag, you will find curious Pc
cularity of the German mind. What will follow
out for revolution If revolution. look out for a
perfectly enormous immigration inlo this country
from Germany. Look at Francel the Bourbons
are holding open court, and the officers of the ar
my are attending them, and across the waters to-
| day you may hear the cry of "Long live Bouan-
ger" Look at the four great nations of Europe
with a standing army of five hundred Thousand
| watching each other night and day, ready to let
| loose the dogs OF war 10 single moment, and
| when they do look at the millions and millions
| that will fee to American shores for safety aud
happiness. Now you have something to do, for
| am happy to say that you have been Improving in
| the past twenty years, but the immense host Of
| immigrants will bring to this country more than
it can stand, unless the people do their duty like
men. There are millions who canlot read or
| write a single word, and they come with little
knowledge Of what our Institution is; to them
Now look at our country. Twenty millions of
boys and girls an not ten millions in schools. Not
| third of them even enrolled, and in few years
they are ruling this republic of ours. Remember
that in the South the average school boys life is
one year Take the average right through and
school but one year in six. lliiteracy is growing.
| What does that mean? That means that wee,
| crime and irreligion are increasing aud that old
country must be swept away. The South is bet
| Ter than 1t was twenty years ago and in my hon
1
as it Is at the present day. The possibilities there
are immense. Now take the State OF Texas
| alone and put the whole sixty millions of the
United States within her borders and add fifteen
millions more to it and 1t would not be so thickly
| settled as Italy Is now. Now Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Florida and Georgia, altogether containing
eleven millions OF people, give for the common
| schools S4,147 900. about thirty-fve cents per
capita. Massachusetts has less than two mil
lions of people and she gave S242,000 more for
| her public schools than all Of these States with
their eleven millions of people. applause
eleven millions of people. Are you going to
leave it with them. You know just as well as l dc
that the ruling classes in the South were born to
nate common schools as an enemy OF the Repub-
lie. Do you suppose that they have got over thatf
Not by any manner of means. What troubles the
South? Equality with the negro. (Applause.l II
Is not colorphobia, (applause) that is what
troubles us; you and do not like the color we
shrink from it; the Southern men do not; they
haven't any such dislike; it Is servtudephObia; II
Is caste. Now we will see what is the matter.
believe that the Southern man would treat the
black just as we would. They would feed them il
hungry, clothe them if needy, just as we would in
the North, but the moment that the colored man
assumes any equality, that moment he goes to the
wall Now how does he assert it? When he
stands up with the ballot in his hand he says, II
am your equal" The master said. mo, never, if
you cast it il shall not be counted, and, If neces
you will find 1t in your schools. You will find the
teacher teaching black scholars excluded from
society. You will find that. the white boy who
would go to the black school would not be per
mitted to associate with the white boys. In
one of the schools of Georgia a white teacher
Legislature passed law that if black children
We're permitted TO go to white schools the teacher
should go into the chain gang. When the Demo-
1 cratic ana Republican newspapers denounced
them for that they came in and made a PROPOSE
ton that the school should be fined $4,000 in Uni
| ted states money; that is the compromise. Now
as far as my experience extends, they have treat
ed the black man, up to the present time, in the
distribution OF money fairly; i has been my .ex
the ruling class of the South will not send their
boys and girls TO the Southern school on account
| OF the prejudces against the common school, and
therefore they viii not raise the money that they
ought to raise to sufficiently educate the whites
| and the blacks.
Ifyou trust to the South to educate them they
| will remain illiterate. Do it yourselves; you
started right. You have shown courage; you
| have shown patriotism; you have shown tenacity
of purpose; you have shown that you dare to keep
your flag to the fore ;"Whosoever will well let him
come" Now all that you want to do this work
| is organization-you have 1t. There never
was an organization in the world like this
What you want is money; and trust when take
alter and read them they never will inform me
that the members of the Congregational churches
over this country have contributed only fifty cent,
we can bring this business right up square to our
faces and look at II and see what the needs are
of this republic turned into the laps of Associa-
tions like this. Why, the men who do the work
are tne men who pay the Penag the men wh
Mr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen,-l
thank you for the kind attention which you have
given nae, and very sincerely beg your pardon toa
having used at least twice the time assigned fol
mein your Kindness (Grest applause)
At the conclusion of Senator Frye's ad
dress the final words of thanks on behalf Of
the Association were spoken by DR.. Beard
gracefully and in touching manner.
In reply DIR. Fem responded for the loca
churches. not combining himself wholly tt
that subject. however. DIR. Fem said:
Address of Rev. w. n. Fem, D. D.
Fathers and brethren of the American Mission
airy Association, / used to hear good old minis
ter give out the hymn,
God moves in a mischievous way,
His wonders to perform
He seems moving in rather mischevous way
to have appointed me this hour, "a man of Southern
birth and Southern breeding to stand between
the living and the dead, between the South and
the North, and extend on the one hand my con-
gratulatons to this body of the churches. and on
the other hand to this American Missionary As
ISOLATION, for this delightful meeting which we
have had. II there is any cause in the wide WORLD
which is great one, it is the cause of this mis-
sionary organization, which handles grander is
sues than any missionary organization that 1
know Of 1t is one of the most amazing in refer
erence to the compass and scope of its object
There is no politician in the land who would not de
light to make it the theme of his general study t,
make II the mission OF his life to master the issue.
which are before this organization, and educate
the. people to the greatness of this Association,
and 10 the dulles which flow from it TO every
member Of this great republic. 1t has seemed Il
me as have heard many of the discussions upon
this floor that it requires the very greatest amount
of wisdom and OF piety TO be able to meet These
issues Alright. The politician who addresses
the ordinary Christian public upon such a subject
as this, must be careful to know his ground. He
must be careful to appeal to no miserable section
al prejudice. He must have word for us as
broad as Is the republic, and must have Chris
tian conscience which is as sensitive as an cleo
trometer In thunder storm. 1t is the easiest
thing In the world to appeal from one section OF
the country to those who are absent IL is quite
another in the spirit of Christian candor to pu
yourself in the position of the people and under
stand the conditions under which they live and
the terrible character of the dangers that are
over them. am not going to make speech, but
what want chiefly to hint at is this. II for one
moment yeu find yourselves sensitive in the New
England States to the problems of socialism, o.
anarchy, of nihilism and the rest, If in the remot
est part OF your organism you are sensitive to
anything that touches property, as you feel Il
throughout the State OF Pennsylvania and the
city Of Chicago today, be little careful to remem
Der that there are people In the far South who re
alize, as you do not, that great as were the diff
culties of slavery before the war, the difficulties
of this hour with the enfranchised slave
are infinitely greater You are putting the ballot
in the hand of man who knows his power You
are educating man who may organize his lower
fellows. You are bringing forward a man who
may introduce not only elements of discord, but
of great danger in the South. The bitterness OF
the past should lie forgotten, and candor and